Improvement in washing-machines



G. R. DAVIS. Washing-Machines.

Patented Feb. 25,1873.

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GEORGE E. DAVIS, or NOBLE'VILLE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,219, dated February 25, 1873.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. DAVIS, of Nobleville, Noble county, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement inWashing-Machines; of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.

My improvement relates to that class of washing-n1 achines in which clothes are washed by being brought into contact with rollers by hand-power; and consists in the peculiar arrangement of the rollers, and the means by which pressure is brought to bear upon them.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the exact manner in which I have carried it out.

The wash-box A is made in the usual manner of other machines, being rectangular, and strongly framed together. In the bottom of this box is snugly fitted the frame 0, a short distance above the floor of the box, and leaving between the frame and the floor the space 0, for draining off the dirty water. Fitting into and across the frame 0 is a series of rollers, B B, as shown in Fig. 1. Sliding on the sides of the frame 0, and above the rollers B B, is an arched frame, D, also carrying an arched series of stationary rubbers, d d d d, as shown in Fig. 1. The frame D is moved back and forth by means of the lever E, and bar E, attached to the crossbar c, Fig. 2. The beam F is attached by a hook to the inside of the wash-box at f, and near its center is secured to the cross-bar h, which connects two standards, G G, having the anti-friction bearings g g, resting on the ends of the frame D, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The operation of my improved machine is this: The arched frame D being raised, the clothes to be washed are placed on the rollers B B. Y The frame D is then placed over the clothes, so that the latter are brought between the two series of rollers, and are held there by means of the upper or arched series, while the operator moves them back and forth by means of the lever E. The pressure upon the frame D is produced by the desired pressure being brought to bear upon the beam F with the other hand of the operator.

3y this means the clothes are held between the series of rubbers, the one revolving and the other stationary, and the required pressurebeing easily. produced by the beam F actin g upon the anti -friction rollers g g, the washing of the dirtiest clothes is readily accomplished.

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Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters' 'Patent, is-

The combination, in a washing-machine, of the frame 0 having the revolving rollers B B, with the arched frame D having the stationary rubbers (l d d d, the beam F, standard G, and anti-friction bearings g g, lever E and cross-bar E, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose above set forth.

GEORGE E. DAVIS.

Witnesses:

(J. G. DAVIDSON, WALLACE FOSTER, ELIAS STARR. 

